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This is the same weapons we had last season when Joe Brady was the talk of the league; trade Marshall for Samuel & Mike Davis for Hubbard. Ball distribution was much better almost had 3 separate 1000 yard receivers. Robby Anderson was considered a steal in free agency and underrated signing. Now he's lazy and can't run routes. This place is amazing lol. yea every position is subpar on offense this season, even the Qb play.

Hey Defense I know you guys have held the Eagles to their lowest yardage total of the season, turned them over multiple times. I know our offense has thrown 3 picks, and been virtually shut out in the 2nd half. And oops Special teams just had a punt blocked. I know why Rhule is doing this, but "C'mon Man"

And so far neither has Sam. Thankfully he has a much better defense and hasn't needed any "game winning drives" except for yesterday of his own doing with the turnovers. I'm Panthers fan first and foremost so I want Donald to succeed, but I also call a spade a spade. And moving on from Teddy to bring Donald here was a lateral move at best and we traded away draft picks to do it.

What great defense did Bridgewater play with last season. Defense was dead last on 3rd downs with getting off the field. This year we either ranked #1 or at the very tops in the league, defense is getting the ball back to the offense, and we're not doing much with it. Much risk, very little reward so far. Both teams are 3-2 at the same point of the season. With two different ranked defenses.

And I'll take a QB that protects the ball when I have a defense that's playing great and I'll beat your risk taker 9 out of 10 times.

I'm holding Sam to the incrediblely high standard the quarterback from last season was unfairly held to, especially on this board. Even though he was completing over 70 percent of his passes and had the offense humming and efficient to the point that people were calling Joe Brady and offensive wizard lol. He was crucified on these board even on completed passes, "look how the ball just floated in the air". Has one of the highest completion percentages "but yea, look at the touchdown/int ratio". After 5 games it was 5/3, current ratio 6/6. Last season it was the defense that was the weak unit and needed to come up to speed, and it was the offense that was being lauded "Carolina rebuilding team but has a nice group of weapons". Now it's looks like we're back to the one man McCaffrey show to have any shot. But apparently the coaching staff and front office agreed with the yahoos on here and shipped Bridgewater off and traded picks for Donald, so yea he better be the 2nd coming. What good was it to take two steps forward on defense this season, only just to take one step backward on offense. Wth this defense and 2nd year in the offense TB would have this team 4-1 now instead of 3-2. Last season Moore, Anderson, Samuel all had breakout seasons, I know it was Joe Brady lol. This season Robby Anderson and a talented rookie Terrace Marshall looking like Keary Colbert and Drew Carter to DJ Moore's, Steve Smith. So yea Donald needs to produce, we have a defense ready to compete this season and a superstar running back in his prime when McCaffrey comes back. If Donald isn't it, what a complete bungle by the front office.

Teddy never had a game this bad, and he was having to chase points last season, because our defense was rebuilding and we couldn't stop the run or get off the field on 3rd downs. Sam's been gifted with leads and dominant defensive play and we're eeking out wins against bottom feeders and this Sunday that snake finally bit us. I saw Teddy go toe to toe with Mahomes and KC with a way less talented Panthers team. I see Sam needed this defense to play wall to wall for 4 quarters to even have a chance in these games.

Matt Kalil was Gettlemans gift.

This We could have Orlando Pace and Jordan Gross as our tackles if Daley, Paradis, and Miller are still the "anchors" in the middle, all any team has to do is stunt their best pass rushers up the middle and it's sack city all game.

Of course Teddy would have won this game today, while not flashy he's a game manager and moves the chains, same thing he's doing in Denver, he did here and New Orleans. That's all we needed today for the W was a game manager with the way the defense played. But Donald put on his not good Jake impersonation but bad Jake impersonation and gave a Eagles team that was dead in the water a reason to keep fighting by not putting the game away.

I didn't quote you, so your op wasn't who that post was responding to. No defense in the NFL is perfect, and no modern NFL defense is going to shut down an offense for the entirety of the game. Outside of the Dallas game the run defense has been above average. Eagles have one of the best duel threat Qb's in the league as far as being able to run the ball. That puts stress on run fits when you have to account for that. Unbeknownst to Panther fans but some teams do have competent offensive lines that can get you a yard or two when it's needed.

If the offense would have gave us atleast 1 quarter that would have been enough to beat the Eagles.

Yea the defense creates back-to-back turnovers and you get great field position and no points off of them. That darn defense if they could of gotten atleast one more turnover we would have won it I tell ya.

Any defense will get worn down meta or not if the offense is being a 3 and out machine. The offense puts up atleast a average performance we win this game going away. But when you have the same amount of turnovers as you have points scored for an entire half, it's not much else the defense can do.

Of the two Qb's on the field today Sam played the worst. And Jalen Hurts played against a much better Panthers defense than Donald faced with the Eagles. Jalen's turnovers one was a bad snap by the Center and the lone interception was a good read by him, but a even a better play by Donte Jackson. Sam picks where him forcing balls that shouldn't have been thrown. We wasted a great defensive effort today by inept coaching and bad quarterbacking inexcusable.

I refuse to believe Robby forgot how to play football all of a sudden after having a career season last year. He's been open and Sam has missed him. He's very Jake Delhommish in he can lock in on the 1st read that's where these turnovers are coming from. Steve Smith was just that good for Delhomme and Moore has been that good for Donald early in the season. But teams are going to start keying in on Moore and if Donald keeps forcing it he going to be up and down all season.

That's what the people wanted, they didn't like check down Teddy, they wanted a QB to force it into triple coverage. You know play some exciting ball, well I hope they got their excitement for the day.

I don't want to hear anymore talk about Brady being an offensive genius and Donald being that much more of an upgrade over Teddy that we had to give up draft picks if they lose a game like this.

This offense is bad man. No way the Eagles should be in this game the way the defense has dominated.

Offense is trying to lose this game. Brady and Donald have not been good today.

Daley and Miller have got to get out the lineup going forward. They are killing drives.

I'm hopeful but worried about this game. The Eagles strength is where we are weakest. Hargreaves and Cox are as good of duo DT's as you're going to find in the league.

My theory is Belichick wanted to stick it to Brady and the Bucs. Knowing that they're in the in need of secondary market. This scenario insured he doesn't go there, plus the Panthers and Patriots have played two common opponents, Saints and the Jets; so Bill probably has seen from game film study that this is a up and coming defense and wanted to give an extra boost to Brady's division rival. I'm sure there had to be better offers than a 6th rd pick in 2023 lol

Definitely should give it a look. Linebacker is one of the thinnest positions we have on the team. Former first round talent. We going to go as far as our defense takes us. Depth is always needed.

I don't need a recap I saw with my own two eyes were the pressures and sacks were coming from straight up the A gap. The guards weren't great but Paradis was the main culprit on more than one sack even if his man wasn't credited with it.